O'Brien's Pub – San Diego, CA

Hello Beer Fans! The big news coming out of this past week’s Great American Beer Festival is that Pizza Port Carlsbad was named Large Brewpub of the Year as brewer Jeff Bagby and his team took him an amazing 7 medals including FOUR GOLD MEDALS – Revelations, Beech Street Bitter, Reed’s Wee Heavy and Cow [...]

Check out the complete winners list at: www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com.  Sculpin took a silve r in the IPA category, Lost Abbey won a pair of medals.  Other locals winning medals include Green Flash, La Jolla Rock Bottom, Pizza Port San Clemente and Port Brewing.  I will post up more details about the winners later. Brewer Jeff Bagby [...]

Greetings Beer Fans! The weather is hot, and that means that cold, hoppy beer is tasting great.  And thankfully, we have quite a bit of it right now.  In addition to our normal line up of Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA, Blind Pig IPA and Russian River IPA we have both Alpine Nelson Rye-IPA and [...]

Greetings Beer Lovers! A very happy birthday to the USA this weekend!  We will be closed on Saturday, July 4th to spend the holiday with family and friends.  The pub will be open normal hours on both Friday (11 am to Midnight) and Sunday (Noon to 6 pm).  Friday the 3rd we will host a [...]

Hello Beer Lovers!   There is always a lot going on in June on the beer calendar.  This weekend is both the San Diego Real Ale at Pizza Port Carlsbad on Friday and Saturday and the San Diego County Fair homebrew competition on Sunday.  The San Diego International Beer Festival at the County Fair is [...]

The VIP session for this weekend’s San Diego Real Ale Festival at Pizza Port Carlsbad is almost sold out.  Just over 30 tickets remain and you only have Tuesday and Wednesday to buy them as sales will be cut off Wednesday night.  We are expecting 51 beers for the festival from 49 different breweries and [...]

Hello Beer Fans! Time for another great beer update from O’Brien’s.  Tonight we are doing the first of our three Beer and Cheese pairings and there have been some last minute cancellations.  If you are interested, the class is at 7 pm at Taste in Hillcrest – please call them at 619-683-2306 to reserve a [...]

Hello Beer Fans! As always, there is a lot of great beer news to tell you about this week.  The big happening in the industry is the nation wide one day theater release of the movie Beer Wars.  It will be shown Thursday night, April 16th in several theaters around town including in Mission Valley.  [...]

Happy New Year Beer Lovers!   January, 2009 is O’Brien’s Pub 15th Anniversary!  San Diego’s original beer bar was openend in January, 1994 by Jim O’Brien and served as the first account for many of San Diego’s local breweries.  It was already my favorite place to drink beer by 1997, and in 2003, I liked [...]

Hello Beer Fans! I have a ton of great beer news for you this week.  First I have to tell you about AleSmith being named the Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival!  The brewery won four medals at the GABF.  Also well represented was Pizza Port Carlsbad and brewer [...]